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We caught up with one of their members, Noah Britton, to find out more aboutAsperger's Are Us.

Who are Asperger's Are Us and how did you guys all meet?

Asperger’s Are Us formed on the north shore of Massachusetts, USA, in the summer of 2010 after New Michael Ingemi, Jack Hanke, and Ethan Finlan graduated from an acting/comedy summer camp where I was their counsellor.

We’ve been performing 100 per cent original sketches ever since, and this’ll be our first international tour, and the first time New Michael or Ethan have left North America.

What can we expect from your show?

Asperger’s Are Us does deadpan absurdist sketches with occasional wordplay and, rarely, satire. We also look really hot.

A subset of the highly verbal people with Asperger's Syndrome seem to have a predilection for wordplay and deadpan absurdism, so we write material that they (and we) seem to like - like our 'Ask me about my fear of strangers' shirt.

Asperger's Are Us are touring Europe

We’ve always preferred performing for large faceless masses to interacting with individuals offstage. The distance eliminates any self-consciousness that social awareness might produce. The distance also protects our audience from catching our autism.

Unlike all other comedians, our goal is to create more good comedy.

Our goal is not now, and never has been, to prove that people with Asperger’s can be funny, because only a condescending ignoramus would assume that we couldn’t be - and imagine if our troupe only existed for those people’s sake!

Do you talk about autism during your sketches?

The only sketch that references autism at all is our opener. But, during our Q&A that we do as part of the show, we’re happy to answer serious questions about autism while we make jokes about everything else.